On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:20:02AM -0800, Serguei Osokine wrote: > You mean you did not expect to grow Dijjer and Freenet beyond > 512K nodes before you'd have to replace all the client code? With > today's P2P network sizes it might be a good idea to have the code > that would be ready to scale into high millions at least - you never > know when you might need it... :-)
Most users upgrade their software within 2 months [1], so replacing all the client code actually isn't that hard. I'm assuming the network is robust enough to keep working if a small percentage of clients have the old code. [1] = based on measurements of LimeWire Ultrapeer users. Amir H. Rasti, Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, "On the Long-term Evolution of the Two-Tier Gnutella Overlay", to appear at the Global Internet Symposium 2006. -- Daniel Stutzbach Computer Science Ph.D Student http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr University of Oregon _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences
